{"product_id":"9781784630669","title":"Sky Hooks","description":"‘Even the anticipation of boobs excited me more than playing with them. Maybe that’s life right there.’ A young warehouseman, his promising football career cut short by injury, counts flanges, valves and couplings for a living. He longs for the warmth and women of the office, but the prostitutes who hang around the high-rise are easier to deal with. Drink provides relief, if not escape, and probably the last thing he should dream of becoming is a writer, but then he buys himself a note pad and pen. This debut novel by Neil Campbell, author of the short story collections Broken Doll and Pictures From Hopper, is a moving and darkly comic meditation on the challenge of trying to realise dreams in a harsh and unfair world. \u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Neil Campbell’s work\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘A vital writer, in touch with people and the natural and constructed worlds around us.’ —Nicholas Royle ‘Everyone who takes contemporary fiction seriously will want to read and re-read this book.’ —Andrew Biswell ‘The dialogue is note perfect and has a studied, savage banality.’ —Paul Magrs ‘These are stories not of love but of need and they ache with truth; they are as eerie and lonely as any Hopper painting.’ —Nuala Ní Chonchúir Neil Campbell writes, “I wrote this book after labouring through a Creative Writing PHD in Northumberland. I wrote it fast. Back on home turf, this novella burst out of me like an animal.” Download it now.","brand":"Salt Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171508863216,"sku":"9781784630669","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784630669_p0.jpg?v=1763726294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784630669","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}